Simple Web Benchmark

A simple web benchmark of Go, Rust, D, Scala and Node.js.

Preliminary Results

MacOS

Hardware: MacBook Pro (CPU: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7, Mem: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3)

Software: Go 1.9, Rust 1.20.0, Scala 2.12.3, Node.js 8.5.0, DMD 2.076.0, LDC 1.3.0.

Windows 10

Hardware: Dell XPS (CPU: 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7, Mem: 16 GB 2133 MHz DDR4)

Software: Go 1.9, Rust 1.20.0, Scala 2.12.3, Node.js 8.5.0, DMD 2.076.0, LDC 1.4.0.

Testing

The stats gathered by the hey tool (please run it twice for the JIT optimizations where it's applicable):

hey -n 50000 -c 256 -t 10 "http://127.0.0.1:3000/"
hey -n 50000 -c 256 -t 10 "http://127.0.0.1:3000/greeting/hello"

MacOS Note

By default, MacOS has low limits on the number of concurrent connections, so few kernel parameters tweaks may be required:

sudo sysctl -w kern.ipc.somaxconn=12000
sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfilesperproc=1048576
sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=1148576

Automation

Please use the Scala script (using sbt Script runner) to run all the test automatically.

Usage: scalas run.scala [options] <lang>...

  -o, --out <file>  image file to generate (result.png by default)
  --verbose         verbose execution output
  <lang>...         languages to test ('all' for all)

The following languages are supported: rust, nodejs, go, scala, dmd, ldc2.

Usage

Please change the required directory before running the server.

Go

go run main.go

Rust

Uses hyper HTTP library:

cargo run --release

D

Two compilers are tested:

• DMD (a reference D compiler);
• LDC (LLVM-based D compiler). If ldc2 executable is not in path, please use the fully qualified path name.

Uses vibe.d framework:

dub run --compiler=dmd --build=release --force
dub run --compiler=ldc2 --build=release --force

Scala

Uses Akka toolkit:

sbt run

Node.js

node main.js